Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 495 368 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.12% 13.63% 14.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.52% 40.84% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 242 298 721
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,063 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -8.42%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,434 901 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.41% 33.38% 30.44%
Number of salaries quoted 634 612 1,443
10th Percentile £26,575 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £33,199 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -20 123 £57,500 +4.55% 49
Cambridgeshire +8 105 £61,300 +25.10% 36
Essex -5 98 £40,000 -20.00% 55
Suffolk +22 61 £70,000 +43.59% 25
Norfolk -1 54 £60,000 +100.00% 22
Bedfordshire +6 51 £14,000 -70.53% 15
East Anglia - 2 £95,000 - 26
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (7.68%) SharePoint
2 34 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.22%) WordPress
4 8 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.01%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 65 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.82%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.82%) Dynamics GP
2 6 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (24.65%) Microsoft 365
2 100 (20.20%) Power Platform
3 95 (19.19%) AWS
4 69 (13.94%) Entra ID
5 64 (12.93%) Azure AI
6 26 (5.25%) GCP
7 24 (4.85%) GitHub
8 21 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.24%) Snowflake
9 19 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 18 (3.64%) PowerApps
11 17 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (3.43%) SaaS
12 14 (2.83%) Power Automate
13 13 (2.63%) OneDrive
14 12 (2.42%) IaaS
15 9 (1.82%) PaaS
16 8 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (1.21%) Azure AKS
17 6 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 72 (14.55%) Firewall
2 27 (5.45%) VPN
3 26 (5.25%) TCP/IP
4 24 (4.85%) WAN
5 22 (4.44%) DHCP
5 22 (4.44%) DNS
6 18 (3.64%) LAN
7 17 (3.43%) Internet
8 9 (1.82%) VLAN
9 7 (1.41%) WLAN
10 6 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.21%) Wireless
11 5 (1.01%) SAN
12 4 (0.81%) Broadband
12 4 (0.81%) DMZ
12 4 (0.81%) Network Security
12 4 (0.81%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.40%) SSL
14 1 (0.20%) IPv4
14 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (18.18%) Power BI
2 67 (13.54%) Tableau
3 21 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.62%) MySQL
9 7 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.21%) Redis
11 5 (1.01%) Looker
11 5 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.61%) Big Data
14 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
15 1 (0.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (3.64%) Git
2 10 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.01%) JIRA
3 5 (1.01%) MLflow
4 2 (0.40%) MSTest
4 2 (0.40%) NUnit
4 2 (0.40%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.40%) TestNG
5 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 249 (50.30%) Social Skills
2 59 (11.92%) Finance
3 28 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.65%) Law
5 16 (3.23%) Multimedia
6 12 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.22%) Publishing
8 9 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.62%) Marketing
9 8 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.21%) Retail
11 5 (1.01%) Legal
12 4 (0.81%) Banking
12 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
14 1 (0.20%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (27.47%) Analyst
2 124 (25.05%) Junior
3 120 (24.24%) Junior Analyst
4 67 (13.54%) IT Support
5 61 (12.32%) Security Analyst
6 60 (12.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 60 (12.12%) Data Analyst
6 60 (12.12%) Junior Data Analyst
6 60 (12.12%) Junior Security Analyst
7 46 (9.29%) Senior
8 44 (8.89%) Architect
9 43 (8.69%) Developer
10 36 (7.27%) Ethical Hacker
11 34 (6.87%) IT Engineer
12 33 (6.67%) Support Engineer
13 29 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
14 28 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
16 25 (5.05%) Lead
17 22 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.07%) CSS
2 27 (5.45%) HTML
3 22 (4.44%) .NET
4 15 (3.03%) REST
5 12 (2.42%) React
6 11 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.82%) JSON
7 9 (1.82%) SOAP
8 8 (1.62%) jQuery
8 8 (1.62%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.62%) TensorFlow
9 7 (1.41%) Kafka
9 7 (1.41%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.21%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.21%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (1.01%) LangChain
11 5 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
11 5 (1.01%) pgvector
11 5 (1.01%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.27%) Cyberattack
2 30 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.62%) Low-Code
6 8 (1.62%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.41%) Clustering
7 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.21%) Robotics
9 5 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.81%) Blog
10 4 (0.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 104 (21.01%) Windows
2 68 (13.74%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (2.42%) Windows 10
4 12 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.82%) Android
6 8 (1.62%) Linux
7 7 (1.41%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.01%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (31.31%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (20.81%) Mentoring
3 99 (20.00%) AI
4 91 (18.38%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (12.12%) Agile
7 45 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (9.09%) DevOps
8 38 (7.68%) ITIL
9 37 (7.47%) Roadmaps
10 36 (7.27%) Ethical Hacking
11 35 (7.07%) Analytics
12 34 (6.87%) CI/CD
13 33 (6.67%) Customer Service
14 32 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 32 (6.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (6.06%) ERP
15 30 (6.06%) Software Engineering
16 27 (5.45%) Data Modelling
17 23 (4.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 110 (22.22%) SQL
2 106 (21.41%) Python
3 40 (8.08%) C#
4 36 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 35 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.03%) PHP
7 13 (2.63%) R
8 12 (2.42%) Java
9 10 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.62%) C++
11 5 (1.01%) Bash
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 193 (38.99%) Azure Certification
2 61 (12.32%) CompTIA CySA+
2 61 (12.32%) CompTIA Security+
3 46 (9.29%) Degree
4 45 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 37 (7.47%) Security Cleared
6 36 (7.27%) CEH
7 31 (6.26%) AWS Certification
8 23 (4.65%) SC Cleared
9 16 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (2.02%) CCNA
13 7 (1.41%) CCNP
14 5 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.81%) MCDST
15 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.63%) GDPR
3 11 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.02%) QA
5 9 (1.82%) GRC
6 7 (1.41%) NIST
7 5 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.81%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.81%) NCSC
8 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.61%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (18.79%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.42%) Docker
6 7 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.81%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.02%) Terraform
4 9 (1.82%) Ansible
5 4 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.81%) SCCM
5 4 (0.81%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.40%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 339 (68.48%) Microsoft
2 96 (19.39%) ForeScout
3 28 (5.66%) VMware
4 18 (3.64%) SAP
5 15 (3.03%) Databricks
6 13 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.22%) SolarWinds
7 11 (2.22%) Workday
8 10 (2.02%) Cisco
8 10 (2.02%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.02%) Google
9 9 (1.82%) Apple
10 7 (1.41%) Epicor
10 7 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.41%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.21%) Aruba
11 6 (1.21%) Pega
12 5 (1.01%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.01%) Sophos